On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 at 23:59, Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2018, Marc Haber wrote: > > Has anybody gotten dpkg path-exclude to work? > > Yes. It's been a long time that I have not used it but the main problem > is that to be effective the option must be used right from the start (i.e. > already at the debootstrap stage) otherwise you have to manually cleanup > the excluded files (at the time when you put the option in dpkg's > configuration file). > > (I don't remember if reinstalling all the packaes achieves the desired > result too) > It does. Cheers, mwh